The Age of Civil War and Reconstruction: A Timeline for Children

THEAGE OF CIVILWAR

ANDRECONSTRUCTION:

A TIMELINEFORCHILDREN

By Broomhandle Books

Shakespir Edition

Copyright 2017 Broomhandle Books

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Foreword

Broomhandle Books created its Continuing Education Series to provide readers with thoughtful considerations on books read by others. Instead of the dashed off “reviews” one might find at retailers or club websites, the Continuing Education pieces are meant to provide a more in-depth consideration of the books themselves.

However, in this particular case, we found an outline of of the American Civil War (or War Between the States) and Reconstruction that we thought could be a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be exploring this period of history for the first time. The outline collapses the complex events surrounding this time period into an outline of key events that need to be explored in order to fully understand the Civil War and the Period of Reconstruction. This outline was written in a fairly simple and comprehensive way so that it would serve the purpose of young readers and/or those who have absolutely no familiarity with the basic situation inside and outside the U.S. during the years from 1817 to 1877. If downloaded as a .doc or .txt file, it can be easily printed or uploaded to a separate file so notes can be added by the student.

For whatever purpose you may use this outline, we hope you find it useful. Enjoy!

The Editors at Broomhandle Books

April 15, 2017

THEAGE OF CIVILWARANDRECONSTRUCTION:

A TIMELINEFORCHILDREN

1817 American Colonization Society

1820 Missouri Compromise

1822 Denmark Veysey Conspiracy

1823 Monroe Doctrine

1826 American Temperance Society

1828 John Calhoun’s South Carolina Exposition and Protest

1831 McCormick Reaper

William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator, Nat Turner’s Revolt

1832 New England Anti-Slavery Society

Nullification Crisis

1833 American Anti-Slavery Society

1836 Republic of Texas, Congressional “gag rule” (rescinded 1844)

1840 Liberty Party

World Anti-Slavery Convention in London

1844 Election of James K. Polk (November)

1845 Annexation of Texas (December)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

1846 Oregon Treaty (June)

Wilmot Proviso (August)

1846-1848 Mexican War

1848 Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo (February)

Free Soil Party

Seneca Falls Convention

Election of Zachary Taylor (November)

Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto

1849 California “Gold Rush”

1850 Nashville Convention (June)

Death of President Taylor; succession of Willard Fillmore (July)

Compromise of 1850 (September)

1852 Harriett Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Election of Franklin Pierce (November)

1853 Gadsden Purchase

1854 Ostend Manifesto

Kansas Nebraska Act (May)

Republican Party

Know-Nothing Party

1855-1858 “Bleeding Kansas”

1856 Sumner-Brooks Incident

Election of James Buchanan

1857 Dred Scott Case (March)

1857-1858 Panic of 1857

1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (August -October)

1859 John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry (October)

Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species

1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln (November)

Secession of South Carolina (December)

Crittendon Compromise (December)

1861 Confederate States of America (February)

Morrill Tariff Act (March)

Surrender of Fort Sumter (April)

First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

1862 Monitor vs. Merrimack (March), Greenback Act (February)

Battle of New Orleans (April)

Homestead Act (May)

Morrill Land Grant College Act

Pacific Railroad Act

Confiscation Act (July)

Battle of Antietam (Sharpesburg) (September)

Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation (September)

1863 Emancipation Proclamation (January 1)

National Bank Act (February)

Battle of Gettysburg (July)

Surrender of Vicksburg (July)

Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction

1864 Wade-Davis Bill (July)

Re-election of Lincoln (November)

1865 Sherman’s Special Field Order #15 (January)

Freedmen’s Bureau Act (March)

Lee’s surrender at Appomattox (April)

Assassination of Lincoln (April)

Andrew Johnson’s Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (May)

“Black Codes”

Congressional Joint Committee on Reconstruction (December)

Ratification of 13th Amendment (December)

Founding of the Ku Klux Klan

1866 Civil Rights Act (April)

Report of Joint Committee on Reconstruction (June)

Congressional passage of 14th Amendment (June)

Supplementary Freedmen’s Bureau Act (July)

Republican election landslide (November)

National Labor Union

1867 First Reconstruction Act (March)

Tenure of Office Act (March)

Command of the Army Act (March)

Second Reconstruction Act (March

Alaska Purchase (March)

Third Reconstruction Act (July)

National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry

1868 Election of Ulysses S. Grant (November)

Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson (March-May)

Fourth Reconstruction Act (March)

Ratification of 14th Amendment (July)

1868-1870 Readmission of Southern States

1869 Congressional passage of 15th Amendment (February)

National Woman Suffrage Association (May)

American Woman Suffrage Association (November)

Knights of Labor

1870 Formation of Standard Oil Company (January)

Ratification of the 15th Amendment (March)

First Enforcement Act (May)

1871 Second Enforcement Act (Federal Elections Act) (February)

Third Enforcement Act (KKK Act) (April)

Alabama claims settlement (May)

Tweed Ring overthrown in New York City

1872 General Amnesty Act (May)

Credit Mobilier scandal

Re-election of Grant (November)

1872-1873 Beecher-Tilton Scandal

1873 Farmers’ Alliance

Coinage Act

1873-1878 Panic of 1873

1874 Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

1875 Civil Rights Act (March)

“Mississippi Plan” (November)

1876 Custer’s “Last Stand” (June)

Disputed Presidential election: Hayes vs. Tilden (November)

1877 Compromise of 1877 (February)

Railroad Strike

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The Age of Civil War and Reconstruction: A Timeline for Children

This outline of of the American Civil War (or War Between the States) and Reconstruction serves as a useful study guide for children or for anyone who may be exploring this period of history for the first time. The outline collapses the complex events surrounding this time period into an outline of key events that need to be explored in order to fully understand the Civil War and the Period of Reconstruction. This outline was written in a fairly simple and comprehensive way so that it would serve the purpose of young readers wishing to do research about the War and/or those who have absolutely no familiarity with the basic situation inside and outside the U.S. during the years from 1817 to 1877.